Towson, MD: The Collectors' Press, 1957-1958. Complete run of 8 issues of the short-lived firearms enthusiast magazine, published in Maryland. Volume 1 Number 1 SIGNED on the Contents page by editors Benet and Codd in 1991. The magazine saw little light, had limited distribution, and only ran for a year and a half, but its content was amongst the most...
Annapolis, MD: Blue Crab Press, 1991 [1988]. Second printing (the first was by Acropolis Books in 1991). INSCRIBED by the author in the year of publication on the front endpaper: "To -- / Think of those who work the water. Enjoy and best of luck / Mick Blackistone / 12/91." Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Jacket is...
Baltimore: The Baltimore Book Company, 1904. Octavo. First printing of this edition. Publisher's green cloth with gilt spine title. Very Good plus with no dust jacket. Light bumping and rubbing at the extremities, attractive bookplate on the front endpaper. McSherry begins the historical account of Maryland with the first settlement by Lord Baltimore in the 1600s, and James continues the...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945, 1948. First printing of this edition. Both volumes Near Fine in Very Good plus dust jackets. Toning to the spine and rear panel, and brief chipping to the jacket spine (Supplement One); jacket with cello-tape to the panels, flaps, and board edges, else Near Fine (Supplement Two).
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. First Edition. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1964. Vintage photograph of actors Peter Fonda, Jean Seberg and Warren Beatty from the 1964 film. With holograph notations in pencil on the verso. Based on J. R. Salamanca's 1961 novel of the same name. Vincent (Warren Beatty) a recent Korean War veteran is in training at a mental institution as an occupational therapist where...
New York: Centaur Enterprises, Inc., 1963. Final Draft script for the 1964 film, an early draft produced over a year before the film's release. A few leaves with notations in holograph pencil. Based on J.R. Salamanca's 1961 novel. An ex-soldierwith PTSD is living in a mental institution, where he meets a similarly troubled woman. Set in Rockville, Maryland, shot there...
Baltimore, MD: Press Box Publishers, 1974. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "Fond wishes / John Steadman." Collects stories and articles from his columns. Author of the well received football titles, "Baltimore Colts," and "Miracle Men of Football." Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Spine ends lightly bumped. Light rubbing to the jacket, with a....
New York: Doubleday, 1985. First Edition. REVIEW COPY, with publisher's material laid in. Set in the early 1980s in Baltimore, Maryland, and about the steel industry. Author's fourth novel. Jacket design by the prolific Paul Bacon. Foxing to the page edges and endpapers, else Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1999. Original promotional poster for a performance by Edgar Winter's White Trash, Mylon LeFevre, and Tin House, performing at the Painter's Mill Music Fair in Owings Mills, Maryland on Sunday, February 21, 1971. Copy from the estate of the poster's designer, the late Alan Rose. Dating from the earliest days of Edgar Winter's budding...